Music and Events

ROCK + SOUL DUO with lots of pop sensibility and just the right amount of sass
Upstate, NY
https://www.sirsy.com

Florida Swamp Blues, Mississippi Blues, Old-Time Americana, Originals
Indiantown, FL
http://www.benprestagemusic.com

Funk / Jazz / Blues / Rock n Roll
from New Orleans, LA

Born in New Orleans, John “Papa” Gros has spent more than a quarter-century championing the music of the Big Easy. He’s played it all — New Orleans funk, rock & roll, jazz, blues, Americana, pop/rock, and he swirls those styles into a genre-bending gumbo that pays tribute to his influences while still pushing ahead into new territory. Like Allen Toussaint and Dr. John, Gros is a proud local who carries on the tradition of New Orleans music, both honoring its past and helping to shape its future.

After kicking off his career as an organist and pianist, for George Porter Jr.’s Runnin’ Pardners, during the 1990s, Gros formed the funk group Papa Grows Funk in 2000. The band held down a weekly performance at the famous Maple Leaf Bar for 13 years, mixing the smooth sophistication of a jazz quintet with the wild, anything-goes spirit of Mardi Gras. Fans and tourists crowded the bar every Monday night, looking for Papa Grows Funk to dish out a greasy, groove-heavy serving of Big Easy funk. The band delivered, releasing six critically-acclaimed albums, including Needle in the Groove, which was co-produced by Nola legend Allen Toussaint, and a 2015 live record that captured Papa Grows Funk’s last Monday night at the Maple Leaf Bar. Through touring around the world, they carried the torch of New Orleans’ music scene to far-flung places.

Papa Grows Funk called it quits in 2013. Gros (pronounced “grow”) kept playing music, landing work as a sideman for many Nola artists, including Better Than Ezra, Anders Osborne, The Metermen, Raw Oyster Cult, and Bonerama, and playing organ during a pair of all-star tributes to Dr. John and the Neville Brothers. Finally, Gros began focusing once again on his solo career, which he’d kicked off in 2004 with the album Day’s End, and by prepping a second solo record that focuses on the full range of his musical influences and abilities.

He’s been a sideman. A bandleader. A frontman. A solo artist. A singer. An instrumentalist. The roles have been varied, but the goal remains the same: to honor the music he’s been living his whole life, and to add his own page to New Orleans’ history book.

Americana/Jam/Funk/Soul
http://www.stephenpigman.com

Rock, Blues, Country, Hip Hop
St. Petersburg, FL
http://stickmartin.com

Funk
Miami, FL
http://www.lemoncitytrio.com

What is Post-Grass?
Banjo/Jazz/Jam to Move Your Soul
https://www.facebook.com/blubopfandango/

Producer/Director/Music-Educator/Pianist, Joe Cosas, enlists an all-star cast of musicians.
Tampa, FL

lespecial return to Dunedin Brewery on Saturday, 11/3!
9pm // Free Admission

• Heavy future groove, progressive rock, death-funk, apocalyptic dub
• Grown in CT. Now located out of Millerton NY and Boston MA
• http://www.lespecial.net

Funk
New Orleans
http://www.weplayfunk.com

Americana / Blues / Swamp-rock / Alt. country
http://www.8ballaitken.com

Psychedelic/Progressive/Folk/Rock
Dunedin, FL
https://www.facebook.com/betweenbluffs/

Funk, Reggae, Rock, Blues, Jam
http://www.eldubmusic.com

Original Old School Funk Music
Tampa Bay Florida
http://www.musicwithexperience.com

Instrumental/Rock/Fusion
Tampa, FL

Joe Sanders – Guitar
Royse Bassham – Drums
Leo Binetti – Bass

Roosevelt Collier plays the Grateful Dead featuring Unlimited Devotion *free show*

Roosevelt Collier is a master of many genres: sacred steel, funk, rock, and even bluegrass. He is a founding member of The Lee Boys and currently plays with Bokanté in addition to his own trio. He is joining forces before and after Thanksgiving with Unlimited Devotion, playing the music of the Grateful Dead.

Unlimited Devotion has developed a devoted fan following and a reputation as one of the America’s most popular Grateful Dead-inspired musical ensembles with a reputation for improvisation at its finest. Unlimited Devotion provides their own interpretation of the Grateful Dead songbook with strong jazz and funk influences.

These nine Florida dates all promise to be monsters. Time to “beat it on down the line” to one of these shows. You’ll give thanks for sure!

Roosevelt Collier Music & Unlimited Devotion

Ska Rocksteady
FLORIDA
http://Thenewrulers.com

Swampland Symphony is an acoustic country band from the the Florida swamplands of Tampa Bay.